Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-18
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 l The first thing shoemaker uses in bot toming shoe is the last.-Lowell Citizen. The tobogganists are naturally interested l in the question of coast defences.-Boston Transcript. 1 Now that the dealers have broken the backbone of the strike, will they please break the backbone of the priee?-Puck. l Henry George says 'fthe saloon cannot be | spared under the present social conditions D 1 It cannot for Henry Georges supporters.- | Boston Post. When it is remembered that Brigham | Young left some forty wives behind him, no | body can be so foolish as to believe that he has returned to earth.-Boston Transcript. It is said that the rule of paying by the hour is obtaining very generally among the building trades. Pretty soon we shall strike to have less than sixty minutes make an hour.-Lowell Courier. The New York Ledger says that Maud s. drinks about twenty quarts of water day, and cannot do without it. Notwithstanding her cold water principles, she is inclined to be decidedly 'ffast "--Norristown Herald. In China man never sees his wife until he is welded to her for life. Chinese eour tships must be very inexpensive affairs, but contain no more tun than walking two miles home from church on dark and rainy night Norristown Herald.
 II beg your pardon, miss," said young man to society belle the other night, ''but don't admire your last fame." "Great heavens, man," she answered, "haven't done everything in my power to change its Must I knock man down with club?' Landlord-That porch is rotten, and ought to come down. Tenant-Yes. Landlord So ought that shed roof. It's very little bet ter Tenant-Yes; and there's something else ought to come down. Landlord-Ah, indeed! What is that? Tenant-The rent, sir.-Hsrper's Bazaar.
 What it was that ailed her-Doctor- 'Your heart is in normal condition" Ner vous Old Lady-"Goodness And is it fatal?" Doctor-'EIts beat is iambic." Old Lady ''It is just dreadful" Doctor-'sWere it trochaie, or even spondiac-" Old Lady Doctor. don't keep me in this horrible sus pense. Give me some medicine at once" Doctor-'sMy dear, there's nothing the mat there isn'ts Why didn't you say so thenF- Harper's Bazar.
 D1sCoURAGING YOUNG POET. Writing from fp ndana a We find that the poem is as foows
 MINNIE LEE.
 She has left us, our own darling
 And we never more shall see Her on earth our dearly loved one God has taken Minnie Lee. Her heart was full of goodness
 And her face fair to see,
 And her life was full of beauty
 How miss our Minnie Lee.
 But her work on earth is over
 And her spirit now is free
 She has gone to live in heaven
 Shall we weep for Minnie Lee:
 Would we call our angel darling
 Back again across tn sea?
 No, but sometime up in heaven
 We will meet loved Minnie Lee. To the question as to whether this poem is worth anything, we choose to answer in verse as follows;
 Sweet poetess your poetry
 Is bad as bad can be,
 And yet we heartily deplore
 The death of Minnie Lee.
 It would have pleased us better
 If, in his wisdom, he
 Had taken you, sweet poetesS,
 Instead of Minnie Lee.
 Your turn will come, however.
 And swift and sure twill be,
 If you continue sending
 Your rhymes on Minnie Lee.
 From this we hope you'll gather
 A dim surInise that we
 Don't take much stock in poems
 Concerning Minnie Lee.
 Chicago News.